Add new user problem

baddah · 06-23-2006, 01:44 AM

Ok,I feel really stupid now.I can't seem to add a new user on Fedora 3.I've done this before and it worked fine,there's some weird permission error,but i'm not sure what.Here's what I've done

Code:

groupadd Group
useradd -d /home/user -g Group username
passwd username
*****

if I try to login(ssh username@ip) I get the folowing error

Code:

/bin/bash: Permission denied

Here's my permissions

Code:

drwxrwxr--   3 root Group  4096 Jun 23 07:57 /home
drwxrwxrwx  2 root Group 4096 Jun 23 08:09 /home/user

ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root Group 616312 Oct 19  2004 /bin/bash

Not sure what's wrong.Please help,I don't want to be stupid anymore.Thanks

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prozac · 06-23-2006, 01:46 AM

why is root the owner of the user's home directory?

gilead · 06-23-2006, 01:50 AM

Have you double-checked the ownership of /home and /home/user? On my system, /home is owned by root:root and each user's directory is owned by the user, not root. I'd have expected something like:

Code:

drwxrwxr--   3 root root  4096 Jun 23 07:57 /home
drwxr-x---   2 user Group 4096 Jun 23 08:09 /home/user

Bruce Hill · 06-23-2006, 02:09 AM

It works well here by issuing "adduser <username>" rather than useradd -- that let's you select the password, UID, user's /home directory, group, etc.

prozac · 06-23-2006, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chinaman

It works well here by issuing "adduser <username>" rather than useradd -- that let's you select the password, UID, user's /home directory, group, etc.

I don't know for sure but adduser script (that lets you chose uid, group etc etc) i think is available only for slack.

baddah · 06-23-2006, 02:12 AM

Ok,That makes sense,I've changed it to the above by doing.

Code:

chown root:root /home
chown user:Group /home/user

drwxrwxr--   3 root root  4096 Jun 23 07:57 home
drwxrwxrwx  2 user Group 4096 Jun 23 08:09 /home/user

but now I get the following error!

Code:

Last login: Fri Jun 23 09:01:54 2006 from ***
Could not chdir to home directory /home/user/: Permission denied
/bin/bash: Permission denied

Bruce Hill · 06-23-2006, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by prozac
I don't know for sure but adduser script (that lets you chose uid, group etc etc) i think is available only for slack.

Figures ... I know Slack's the oldest Linux distro, and since all the others came
afterwards, they're just trying to improve on it. Never has happened, though,
which makes my wonder why anyone uses them.

prozac · 06-23-2006, 02:18 AM

Code:

chown -R user: /home/user

should have solved the problem.no need to give the group,it will automatically take the primary group of the user.

Bruce Hill · 06-23-2006, 02:18 AM

Try this:

Code:

chown root.root /home
chmod 755 /home
chown <username>.users /home/<username>
chmod 711 /home/<username>

Should fix you right up.

prozac · 06-23-2006, 02:20 AM

or better yet create another user and try with that user

Code:

useradd -g group user2
passwd user2

see if /home/user2 exists and who owns it. then use user2 to do the ssh login.

baddah · 06-23-2006, 02:27 AM

That sorted home dir permissions thanks,but i still get the

/bin/bash: Permission denied

error when trying to log in

prozac · 06-23-2006, 02:31 AM

what does your /etc/passwd say abt the user?

Tinkster · 06-23-2006, 02:35 AM

Quote:

That sorted home dir permissions thanks,but i still get the

/bin/bash: Permission denied

error when trying to log in

ls -l /bin/bash
ls -l /

If there's nothing wrong with the perms there try
ldd `which bash`
and check the perms on the libs it's linked against,
and the whole directory structure they live under ...

Cheers,
Tink

baddah · 06-23-2006, 02:36 AM

Code:

user:x:500:500::/home/user/:/bin/bash

..

prozac · 06-23-2006, 02:39 AM

nothing wrong with that. follow tinkster posts.